Ari Shavit Quotes
At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.
Quotes to Explore
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
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The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
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There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
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In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.
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No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.
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I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
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I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
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The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
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The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
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We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.
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A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
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Just like we do for fire victims every day of the year, we want to meet those needs.
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The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
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War loves to seek its victims in the young.
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What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.
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Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.
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The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
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The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
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At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.
